KUALA LUMPUR: The Industrial Court has held that employers cannot force their staff to take their annual leave during a company shutdown due to economic reasons. Industrial Court president Susila Sithamparam said the right of an employee to leisure must be balanced with the rights of an employer to manage its business where there was cut in production. She said this in making an award in favour of the National Union of Pewter and Handicraft Workers against Royal Selangor International Sdn Bhd.

Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok is confident that the National Wages Consultative Council 2011, approved by the Dewan Negara this week, will be able to attract locals to work in the plantation sector.

15 July 2011: Muttath KM Services (MKMS) has re-launched Malaysian Legal and Tax Information Centre (MLTIC), a Free Access to Law cluster of portals on Malaysian law and tax, with several enhanced features and a new look. The new web cluster, wh...

Muttath KM Services has announced the launch of Asean Tax Portal, a portal that will consolidate Asean tax information. More information will follow shortly.

New Look MLTIC Web Cluster

Muttath KM Services has re-launched Malaysian Legal and Tax Information Centre, a Free Access to Law cluster of portals on Malaysian law and tax, with several enhanced features and a new look. The new web cluster is available at malaysianlaw.my.

The law of Malaysia is mainly based on the common law legal system, a direct result of the British colonisation of Malaya, Sarawak, and North Borneo by Britain.

The Federal Constitution is the supreme law of Malaysia. It establishes a constitutional monarchy with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong as the Head of State. It provides for the establishment of three main branches of the government: the bicameral legislative branch called the Parliament, which consists of the House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat) and the Senate (Dewan Negara); the executive branch led by the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers; and the judiciary headed by the Federal Court.

MLTIC allows individuals and organizations to take advantage of its standing as the most-visited web portal on Malaysian law and tax by becoming sponsors and advertisers. Several options are available.

MLTIC is planning to develop a wide range of products and services for Malaysian legal and tax industries. MLTIC believes that forging long-term partnerships with the right people is the way forward, and is looking for enterprising individuals or organizations to partner with.

Employment Law is a micro-site of MLTIC, the most popular web portal on Malaysian law and tax. MLTIC (read as M-L-Tick) or Malaysian Legal and Tax Information Centre is a cluster of web portals on Malaysian law and tax. MLTIC consists of a main portal and 9 micro-sites accessible at or via www.malaysianlaw.my. MLTIC is an initiative inspired by Free Access to Law movement.